🔒 How do i use the second thing from a dict list?

[sand totem]

I need it to determine placement in a calculetour.

[kind fable]

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[idle wraith]

OP's data is only 1 dict. Not a list of dicts

[sand totem]

no i want to use the second data to find the first

[idle wraith]

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[kind fable]

Rules

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[idle wraith]

Basically find the value to find the key? Why not rearrange your dict to put the values as the key and the key as values?

that would be confusing with all of those 0

[sand totem]

mainly because the rest of the values will be zero unless they have a another variable

0 is supposed to mean no button

essentially you can buy buttons

that's why there are empty buttons

[sand totem]

yes

[idle wraith]

ok so you now have a different way of finding "equal"

[sand totem]

that's exactly - what i am trying

[idle wraith]

You'll have to loop over the items and find it

[sand totem]

if there really no other way

cuase this is a game

[idle wraith]

There are other ways for sure

[sand totem]

yup

[idle wraith]

You could put it in a sqlite database

And then do a SQL ORM select where value clause

[sand totem]

is that a libary?

[idle wraith]

!d sqlite3

[kind fable]

sqlite3

Source code: Lib/sqlite3/

SQLite is a C library that provides a lightweight disk-based database that doesn’t require a separate server process and allows accessing the database using a nonstandard variant of the SQL query language. Some applications can use SQLite for internal data storage. It’s also possible to prototype an application using SQLite and then port the code to a larger database such as PostgreSQL or Oracle.

The sqlite3 module was written by Gerhard Häring. It provides an SQL interface compliant with the DB-API 2.0 specification described by PEP 249, and requires SQLite 3.15.2 or newer...

[idle wraith]

Its built-in to python

!pip sqlalchemy is handy library that makes queries easier to maintain and such

[kind fable]

SQLAlchemy v2.0.41

Database Abstraction Library

Released on <t:1747242632:D>.

[idle wraith]

But tbh, its a bit of an overkill just for 1 button_placement. But if your game is going to grow and begins to hold more data, then the sqlite database makes a bit more sense

[sand totem]

can you give me code or some video to understand how to use it with dictionaries

[idle wraith]

The doc I shared above shows a pretty decent guide on how to

Otherwise, you can try and search on youtube

Like this one https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8yHTlrs9EA

[loud iron]

There are other less overkill ways like just using a variable to store that information so you dont need to recompute it every time

[acoustic vessel]

Why is "equal" in your first key value pair?

[sand totem]

There multiple buttons in my calculator

Equal is one

I added as first for testing

[sand totem]

Will that work for my use

[loud iron]

hmm why are you using a dictionary instead of a list

[sand totem]

valid point

let me test it out

if it words than I will end this thread if not than no

[loud iron]

and why are you using multiple dictionaries instead of lists of objects (or you can use lists/tuples as grouped data)

[sand totem]

cause I am retrying python after 2 years and the most coding I ever did was a simple weight calculator

in other words I am dumb

[loud iron]

Yeah since the goal is learning python i would suggest practice with slightly better practices

List of dicts is useful as easy objects:
buttons = [{"x": 129, "y": 329...},...]

I would recommend it if you already know lists and dicts but havent learnt objects

[sand totem]

boys thank you

[sand totem]

i will try that later

It's done

[pure yoke]

what u need those 4 tuples of numbers for

[slender dust]

show the whole code that is using those dictionaries tuples and the list
because from the little code that you showed so far it doesn't even looks like you are using the dictionaries tuples and the list for anything useful, and depending on how you're going to use the data would inform how the data would be better structured

[pure yoke]

they are tuples

i also thought they were {} at first, even then that would be a set tho

[slender dust]

you're right, i was just stuck thinking of dictionaries after just reading through the whole thread from the top down as it mostly is about the dictionaries that OP originally used in their code

[sand totem]

Ok

@kind fable

I essentially have to use replit cause my school require to usethe laptops they give us

and you can't install anything unless its from microsoft store (for exe file)

including pygame

and this is group work

so my partners needs to see this

[slender dust]

i see, that's a pity, but using some online site works in that scenario

[slender dust]

@sand totem about your code:

• you don't have to pre-populate your dictionaries like that when you initialize the dictionary, and you could probably do with just using lists instead in many scenarios
• the two loops in the beginning could be combined into one loop and eliminate a lot of code duplication
• creating the buttons would probably be better done in a loop to not need to repeat as much code and put that data into dictionaries instead
• the code could be simplified and shortened by reusing more code by encapsulating more of it in functions
• the code would greatly benefit from using classes to define your own data type to hold the data, but i don't know if that is something you have learned yet

and it would have been easier to read the code as text instead of a lot of screenshots, and as this is probably more code than would fit in one message here on discord, using this discord servers paste service is probably the best solution
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[kind fable]

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[slender dust]

using text instead of screenshots doesn't only simplifying reading the code for others but it also makes it easier for people to provide help by not having to retype chunks of your code here in the chat to suggest changes or comment on parts of your code, increasing the chances of you receiving help here

[kind fable]

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